Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng crushed the Ninth Sword of Heaven and Earth, then killed Xu Yisheng and the Golden Snake Sword Palace's Nine-Ring Overlord, Xu Yishi, with effortless gestures. As the sword cultivators watched in terror, the yellow-robed elder's offer to take Chen Zheng to Imperial Withered Mountain became unnecessary.

• Chen Zheng shattered Xu Yisheng's primordial spirit with a finger, revealing that the Ninth Sword of Heaven and Earth had been real.
• The yellow-robed elder from Imperial Withered Mountain offered Chen Zheng protection from the Golden Snake Sword Palace by bringing him to Qilin Sword Venerable.
• Xu Yishi arrived, and Chen Zheng destroyed his body and primordial spirit with a slap before he could land.
• Chen Zheng remarked that he had needed no sword to kill an Epoch Hegemon.

Chen Zheng healed Nine Songs Sword Venerable and learned that he was recognized as the Sword Master’s reincarnation. Nine Songs Sword Venerable explained the legend of the ten swords, which were born from primordial chaos and collectively known as the Grand Emperor Sword.

• Ge Sanjian and the other visiting sword cultivators fled after Chen Zheng crushed the Ninth Sword of Heaven and Earth and killed Xu Yishi.
• Chen Zheng left the Golden Serpent Divine Sword with Nine Songs Sword Mountain, then transported everyone inside and heard about Madam Nether Serpent’s powerful connections.
• Chen Zheng sent divine light into the stone statue of Nine Songs Sword Venerable, restoring him to life.
• Nine Songs Sword Venerable bowed to Chen Zheng as the Supreme Sword Master and explained that he had deduced Chen Zheng’s identity from an ancient stele at the Sword Abyss.
• Nine Songs Sword Venerable told Chen Zheng that the ten swords were born from earliest chaos and were collectively called the Grand Emperor Sword.

Nine Songs Sword Venerable revealed the Grand Emperor’s past search for the Ninth Sword, but Chen Zheng dismissed him as no threat. When Madam Nether Serpent’s pet attacked Nine Songs Sword Mountain, Chen Zheng destroyed it with a casual point, prompting her to challenge him and Nine Songs Sword Venerable to ask who could make his lord draw his sword.

• Nine Songs Sword Venerable told the sect master and disciples that the Grand Emperor had failed to win the Ninth Sword’s recognition and may have been seeking the First Sword.
• Chen Zheng said the Grand Emperor, now sixth on the Supreme Ranking, posed no threat to him.
• Nether Serpent arrived at Nine Songs Sword Mountain and demanded the death of whoever had killed Xu Yishi of the Golden Snake Sword Palace.
• Chen Zheng pointed at Nether Serpent and annihilated it, and a proclamation announced its death throughout the Great Void.
• Madam Nether Serpent appeared as a Will Spirit Transformation, challenged Chen Zheng to come to Yin Moon Palace, and Nine Songs Sword Venerable asked who could make his lord draw his sword.

Chen Zheng went to Yin Moon Palace seeking the Fifth Great Domain’s Domain Eye, and his devil dragon companion destroyed the palace and swallowed it. Madam Nether Serpent was left confronting Chen Zheng as the Domain Eye vanished into the dragon’s grasp.

• Chen Zheng told Nine Songs Sword Venerable that he had come for the Epoch Divine Stele, the Domain Eye, and the Fifth Tribulation Lord and Fifth Epoch Holy Emperor, then set off for Yin Moon Palace.
• Nine Songs Sword Venerable and the Sword Mountain sect master and young sect master followed Chen Zheng, while the mountain disciples speculated about the impending conflict.
• Chen Zheng and the devil dragon entered Yin Moon Palace’s immortal grotto, where the dragon destroyed the Moon God Beasts and killed Left Envoy Fan.
• Madam Nether Serpent confronted the devil dragon, but it smashed the ghostly blue devil palace and exposed the Fifth Great Domain’s Domain Eye beneath the ruins.
• The devil dragon swallowed the Domain Eye, transformed into a little girl, and flew into Chen Zheng’s brow.

Chen Zheng confronted Madam Nether Serpent and the Yin Moon Emperor’s Will Spirit Transformation, who tried to negotiate by revealing information about the Shattered Land. Chen Zheng rejected the deal and destroyed them both, but a strange crystalline thread appeared where they vanished.

• Madam Nether Serpent accused Chen Zheng of killing her Yin Moon Nether Serpent and summoned her backer with a piece of black jade.
• The Yin Moon Emperor’s Will Spirit Transformation appeared, apologized to Chen Zheng, and offered information about the Shattered Land in exchange for taking Madam Nether Serpent away.
• The Yin Moon Emperor explained that Madam Nether Serpent could revive outside the Great Void and warned that Chen Zheng could not kill her permanently without finding his elder brother and her special constitution.
• Chen Zheng said he did not mind the trouble and asked why killing Madam Nether Serpent once would matter if she could revive.
• The Yin Moon Emperor tried to seize Madam Nether Serpent, but Chen Zheng casually struck them both into nothingness.
• A strange crystalline thread appeared in the air where Madam Nether Serpent had vanished.

Chen Zheng seized Madam Nether Serpent’s companion thread after she revived outside the Great Void and attacked the Yin Moon Palace. When seven of Heaven and Earth’s Ten Swords flew into the Sword Abyss, Chen Zheng set out to retrieve them despite Nine Songs Sword Venerable’s suspicions.

• Madam Nether Serpent used a strange thread to destroy the fleshly bodies of nearly everyone in Yin Moon Palace, but Chen Zheng restored the blood-red thread and drew it into his primordial spirit.
• The Yin Moon Emperor announced that the Eternal Night Emperor would visit Chen Zheng in the Great Void within three months, and Chen Zheng said he would wait for him.
• A vast sea of sword phantoms appeared across the Fifth Great Domain, and seven of Heaven and Earth’s Ten Swords emerged and flew into the Sword Abyss.
• Nine Songs Sword Venerable worried that the seven swords’ gathering might be a trap, but Chen Zheng said he would enter the Sword Abyss and take them.
• Young Sect Master Yi Chuan and Sword Mountain’s sect master agreed to follow Chen Zheng into the Sword Abyss.

Sword cultivators flocked to Sword Abyss after seven divine swords entered it, and sword seeds sent from within sharply increased their cultivation. Chen Zheng and the others entered to find Kungu Sword Venerable trapped, stealing the cultivators’ sword seeds, and then breaking free—until someone pulled out his heart.

• Sword seeds flew from Sword Abyss into the waiting cultivators, raising their cultivation and drawing them inside.
• Chen Zheng, Nine Songs Sword Venerable, and the Sword Mountain sect master and young sect master entered Sword Abyss and absorbed sword seeds of their own.
• The cultivators saw Kungu Sword Venerable trapped in a small stone forest, unable to escape even with his Supreme Realm sword strike.
• Kungu Sword Venerable seized the sword seeds from nearly all the cultivators, used their power to break through the formation, and declared he would lead the Fifth Great Domain’s sword cultivators to glory.
• Chen Zheng called Kungu Sword Venerable a fool, and a white-jade hand pulled out Kungu Sword Venerable’s heart.

A man on the stone platform revived Nine Bones Sword Venerable by using Kungu Sword Venerable’s heart, then chose Chen Zheng as another attendant whose heart he intended to borrow. Chen Zheng remained unharmed as the man’s body exploded and Nine Bones Sword Venerable’s sword turned back on him, shattering his newly restored body and primordial spirit.

• The man on the stone platform drained Kungu Sword Venerable’s cultivation, used his golden heart and a pearl to create a new Kungu, and welcomed him as Nine Bones Sword Venerable.
• Nine Bones Sword Venerable told the cultivators that he and nine fellow Sword Venerables had once slain the Fifth Holy Emperor and sealed the Fifth Tribulation Lord, and that they planned to go to the Shattered Land.
• The man on the stone platform selected Chen Zheng as an attendant and said he would borrow Chen Zheng’s heart to revive another Sword Venerable.
• Chen Zheng warned that they could not afford to borrow his heart, but the man reached for him anyway.
• The man’s body exploded without harming Chen Zheng, and Nine Bones Sword Venerable’s sword turned around and pierced him, shattering his body and golden primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng led the sword cultivators through the Sword Abyss, where he destroyed its defenses and opened a passage in the cliff. The passage brought them to a lake resembling the Ten Unforgivable Evils in the Second Great Domain, where they witnessed a mysterious swordsman fighting a Supreme Realm saber cultivator.

• The remaining primordial spirits vanished into the Sword Abyss, and Chen Zheng shattered the stone forest formation as he led the cultivators after them.
• Chen Zheng walked through the ancient path, destroying its sword puppets, mechanisms, formations, and other dangers without slowing down.
• At the Sword Abyss's deepest point, Chen Zheng broke the shadow figures emerging from a mirror-like cliff and opened a narrow passage.
• Chen Zheng and the sword cultivators followed the passage and emerged beside a lake resembling the Ten Unforgivable Evils in the Second Great Domain.
• The cultivators saw the mysterious man wielding the seven divine swords against a ferocious saber cultivator, then discovered they could not probe the Supreme Ranking in that place.

The strange world proved to be the scenes of Yi Cang’s Heavenly Illusion Tribulation, which he survived to reach the Pinnacle of the Supreme and gain control of seven Swords of Heaven and Earth. When Nine Bones Sword Venerable’s primordial spirit threatened Chen Zheng, Chen revealed that he was the Sword Master and shattered all seven swords.

• The Fifth Great Domain cultivators watched the shifting world show a lake, a pit, the Grand Emperor’s Great Chaos Sword Palace, a metal realm, and finally darkness as Yi Cang fought a saber-wielding avatar of Tribulation-Free Heaven and Earth.
• Yi Cang defeated the avatar and emerged before a crystal-like sword mountain, while the heart-plucking man and Nine Bones Sword Venerable congratulated him for transcending the Heavenly Illusion Tribulation.
• Nine Bones Sword Venerable urged Yi Cang to sacrifice Chen Zheng to the swords, and the heart-plucking man declared that Yi Cang’s new power made Chen’s escape impossible.
• Chen Zheng said that he really was the Sword Master and reached toward Yi Cang’s seven Swords of Heaven and Earth.
• The seven Swords of Heaven and Earth flew to Chen Zheng and shattered before anyone could react.

Chen Zheng revealed himself as the reincarnation of the Sword Master, destroyed Yi Cang Sword Venerable when he tried to escape, and led the sword cultivators out of the collapsing Sword Abyss. He then learned that the Transcendence Lineage had taken the Fifth Great Domain’s Epoch Divine Stele and that the Fifth Tribulation Lord and Fifth Holy Emperor had once been there.

• The sword cultivators realized Chen Zheng was the Sword Master, while the heart-plucking man and Nine Bones Sword Venerable reacted in despair.
• Yi Cang Sword Venerable seized the two damaged primordial spirits and tried to flee, but Chen Zheng annihilated him with the Great Dao of Space and Time.
• Chen Zheng collected the Epoch Ring fragments, shattered the mysterious space, and teleported everyone out of the Sword Abyss before it collapsed.
• Chen Zheng sent an ancient golden token beneath the earth and recalled it after it searched the Fifth Great Domain.
• Chen Zheng said the Transcendence Lineage had taken the Epoch Divine Stele and that the Fifth Tribulation Lord and Fifth Holy Emperor had both visited the Fifth Great Domain.

Nine Songs Sword Venerable asked Chen Zheng to demonstrate his sword, and Chen Zheng used the Creation Divine Brush to lure a powerful being into the Fifth Great Domain. The Supreme Ranking named the newcomer Silver, and Chen Zheng’s sword struck as the silver figure appeared beyond a tear in the heavens.

• Nine Songs Sword Venerable bowed to Chen Zheng and asked him to deliver a sword strike.
• Chen Zheng sent the Creation Divine Brush into the sky to lure a being from beyond the Great Void.
• A silver barrier sealed the Fifth Great Domain, and an enormous hand tried to knock the brush out of the Great Void.
• The Supreme Ranking showed an unfamiliar name, Silver, in sixth place above the Grand Emperor.
• Chen Zheng’s netherworld sword tore open the heavens, revealing a gigantic silver figure with a wound through its brow.

Chen Zheng slew Yin with a single sword strike and disappeared, leaving Nine Songs Sword Venerable to realize who he was. In the Heaven-Governing Great Domain, the little metal man urged the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor to seek a way out, then revealed that he was the first Extreme, creator of the reincarnation fate lord system.

• Chen Zheng destroyed Yin and his Epoch Ring, and a voice announced Yin’s fall throughout the Great Void.
• Nine Songs Sword Venerable concluded that Chen Zheng was the being at the top of the Supreme Ranking and bowed to his name.
• The little metal man appeared before the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor and urged him to abandon his plan to save Primordial and seek out the Reincarnation Lineage.
• The Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor refused to leave Primordial behind, while the little metal man warned that Chen Zheng would eventually force open the way beyond the thirteen great domains.
• The little metal man revealed that he was the first Extreme and explained that he avoided the Reincarnation Lineage because its members likely wanted to kill him over the twisted conditions he had built into their system.

Chen Zheng arrived at the besieged Changsheng Tianhuo Dao and killed the demon leader as its Holy Maiden awakened the Changsheng Divine Fire. Her power erupted with the phantom of a wild fire spirit behind her.

• The old man learned that the little metal man had once created secret arts and could barely maintain the Ninefold Great Reincarnation's balance, which Chen Zheng's transcendence would likely shatter.
• The Changsheng Tianhuo Dao's Holy Maiden cultivated the Changsheng Divine Fire while Floating Peak Demon People attacked the sect.
• The demons revealed that Daoist Shengyang and the major human lineages had ordered the attack because the Tianhuo Dao was the source of an impending upheaval.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the rear mountain and killed Elder Ying with a casual gesture.
• The Holy Maiden's suppressed divine fire erupted, and a wild-looking phantom identical to her appeared behind her.

Chen Zheng rescued the Tianhuo Dao from the Floating Peak Demon People and revealed his connection to Fire Charm, who recognized him as her ancestral master. As a new demon force arrived and its Eight-Ring Overlord Grand Commander attacked Chen Zheng, the Grand Commander abruptly exploded.

• Fire Charm burned the Floating Peak Demon People to ashes, and Chen Zheng restrained her when she tried to kiss him.
• Chen Zheng gave Fire Charm the Tianhuo Holy Token to restore her cultivation and urged the Tianhuo Dao to destroy the lineages threatening it.
• Chen Zheng revealed a supreme aura through his Dao platform, and Fire Charm recognized him as her ancestral master before returning to the Holy Maiden.
• The Tianhuo Dao Holy Maiden awoke as a host of Floating Peak Demon People led by an Eight-Ring Overlord Grand Commander arrived.
• The Grand Commander lunged at Chen Zheng to seize his Dao platform and exploded into a mist of blood.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Floating Peak Demon People who attacked the Changsheng Tianhuo Dao, healed its sect master and elders, and saved the sect. A hundred human orthodoxies then surrounded the mountain and demanded that the Tianhuo Dao kill itself, invoking Daoist Shengyang’s authority.

• Chen Zheng killed the Floating Peak Demon People’s Grand Commander and remaining attackers, leaving the Tianhuo Dao disciples stunned.
• Meixue, the Changsheng Tianhuo Dao’s Holy Maiden, bowed to Chen Zheng and called him Patriarch.
• Chen Zheng brought the sect master and elders from the rear mountain to the front and healed their injuries.
• The sect master awoke and warned the others to flee, then learned that Chen Zheng had saved the Tianhuo Dao.
• A hundred human orthodoxies surrounded the mountain gate and ordered the Tianhuo Dao to kill itself, claiming its sacrifice would preserve the balance under Daoist Shengyang.

Chen Zheng killed the Epoch Hegemon who threatened Tianhuo Dao, then crushed Daoist Shengyang, the Tianhuo Great Domain’s only Supreme, to death with one hand. Tianhuo Dao and the surrounding orthodoxies were left stunned by his overwhelming power.

• Deacon Qiu questioned Lord Shengyang’s divination, but an Epoch Hegemon silenced him with oppressive might before Chen Zheng shattered that might and killed the Epoch Hegemon.
• Tianhuo Dao’s sect master and elders realized Chen Zheng had saved them, while Lord Shengyang descended and demanded that Tianhuo Dao destroy its own primordial spirits.
• Tianhuo Dao’s sect master urged Chen Zheng to leave, but Chen Zheng showed disdain as Lord Shengyang and the other orthodoxies pressured Tianhuo Dao to die.
• Chen Zheng appeared before Lord Shengyang, and when an Epoch Hegemon mocked him, Chen Zheng crushed Daoist Shengyang’s neck and primordial spirit with one hand.
• The cultivators inside and outside Tianhuo Dao’s mountain gate stood in horrified silence after witnessing Chen Zheng kill a Supreme.

Chen Zheng killed Daoist Shengyang, then defeated Kucang’s Dao body after it slaughtered the cultivators gathered outside Tianhuo Dao. He left the survivors with a warning about the price of their actions, while Kucang’s true body awaited him in the Land of Ten Unforgivable Evils.

• Chen Zheng killed Daoist Shengyang in one blow, and the Undefeated Divine Stele announced his death throughout the Great Void.
• Chen Zheng told Daoist Shengyang’s ancient beast to fetch whoever stood behind him, and the beast returned with Kucang from the Second Great Domain.
• Kucang’s Dao body declared that everyone would die with Shengyang and destroyed the cultivators from the hundred-odd Dao lineages outside Tianhuo Dao.
• Chen Zheng casually slapped Kucang’s Dao body into nothingness, and Kucang’s phantom challenged him to come to the Land of Ten Unforgivable Evils.
• The remnant souls asked Chen Zheng why he had allowed Kucang’s Dao body to attack them, and Chen Zheng replied that wrongdoing always carried a price.

Chen Zheng kept the remnant souls of the hundred-odd lineages alive to give Fire Charm practice, but she destroyed their fleeing forces with divine fire. When Tian Jiuchonglou began devouring the Tianhuo Great Domain, Chen Zheng used the Ultimate of Fire to transform the demonic shadow into a flame god-demon and then shatter it.

• The crimson-robed sect master Fuyan destroyed his primordial spirit, and several of his followers followed suit rather than serve as Fire Charm’s practice.
• Fire Charm emerged from Meixue’s body, burned the fleeing lineages’ ships and treasures, and told Chen Zheng she had condensed three Overlord Divine Runes in under two hours.
• A demonic shadow appeared southwest of the Tianhuo Dao and began devouring the domain; Fire Charm recognized it as Tian Jiuchonglou, a Soul Demon Clan monster whose ranking was rapidly rising.
• As the shadow approached the Tianhuo Dao, Chen Zheng said he would show Fire Charm the Ultimate of Fire and sent a streak of crimson light into it.
• The demonic shadow turned scarlet and became a vast flame god-demon before abruptly shattering into falling crimson lights.

Chen Zheng killed Tian Jiuchonglou after Daoist Shengyang’s fall, then revealed his connection to the Changsheng Tianhuo Dao and took its people away to reclaim what belonged to them. Kucang and Meng Tianji appeared after his departure and argued over how their pawns had failed.

• The Undefeated Divine Stele announced Tian Jiuchonglou’s fall, and the Tianhuo Dao cultivators marveled at Chen Zheng’s power.
• Chen Zheng erased Daoist Shengyang’s corpse and said the figures controlling the Tianhuo Great Domain were only pawns.
• Meixue asked whether the Third Tribulation Lord was behind the schemes, and Chen Zheng said that being was not on that level.
• Chen Zheng told the Tianhuo Dao that the Changsheng Immortal Venerable had practiced his secret art and promised to help the sect reclaim what belonged to it.
• Chen Zheng teleported away with Meixue and the Tianhuo Dao cultivators, after which Kucang and Meng Tianji appeared and blamed each other’s pawns for their losses.